Jezza's Blog

Like the high school noire film 'Brick', but without the plot complexity, the clever cinematography, the drugs, the intrigue...in ...

Possibly the weirdest film I have ever seen, and I have seen some weird ones. This is shot and edited with all the visual sense of a famil...

Two separate questions really. The historic status of Zionism, and whether Israel should be ‘the state of the Jewish people’. On the fi...

A good, funny, quirky comedy that's perhaps a bit shallow, but in a good way. Tracey is having a hard time in her first semester (that...

This is a very powerful, and for me, rather disturbing film. It was made more disturbing by watching in the presence of two just-post-teen...

A comedy about dysfunctional families, break-up, ageing, disappointment and death. The poster, which makes it look like a British version...

Lame-ish romcom set in Hollywood around a 40-ish TV producer who falls for a younger man. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the producer, and lots ...

A documentary about Scientology, based on a book, that reveals a lot about the inner workings of the 'church' but leaves a lot of ...

A bio-pic of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who turns out to have been much more troubled than I  could have imagined from the music. A g...

Watched this last night, at the cinema, as part of a ‘première’ with live Q&A with director and producer. Glad I did, because some fi...

A musical about a serial killer. Well, actually a setting to opera-style music of the verbatim transcripts gathered by researchers who spe...

Slightly dull and plodding romcom, without much rom or com. Young man channelling his inner 'Alfie' comes to London, uses his char...

Watched this in a free screening at the achingly cool venue Passing Clouds, in super-hip Dalston. A zero budget film made over three years...

Watched on iPlayer via Chromecast, and watched for the second time. Not entirely through choice, because it isn't really worth watchin...

A largely pointless, shapeless film. I went to see this because I understood it was a follow-on from 'Hope and Glory', also semi-a...

This is a film version of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan", transposed to a 1930s Amalfi ex-pat scene of wealthy Am...

I watched this last night at the Earl Haig Hall in Crouch End, projected from a laptop (as is typical of such showings, there was a low ba...

Watched this again last night, on an old-fashioned DVD. Had forgotten how brilliant it is - the complexity of the plot (not only is it not...

A striking example of how far mainstream attitudes have moved on issues of gender and sexuality. This film depicts the life and loves of a...

A really, really good film, though not at all a feel-good film. It's a slice through contemporary Ireland with all its pain and troubl...